(Taylor & Francis (Routledge)/Unisa Press., 2009) Naidu, Uma Maheshvari.
This study works through the ethnographic narratives of two young girls who perform in a tourist cultural village, and probes how
certain cultural constructions of ‘Zulu girl’ or maiden are enacted in the context of cultural tourism. The article demonstrates that
the girls live with a certain level of cultural discordance between their own experiences as young Zulu-speaking girls and how
they are positioned in tourism consumption as 'Zulu maidens'. The study situates the narratives of the two performers, Zodwa
and Pumi [pseudonyms] alongside the perceptions of a group of Zulu-speaking girls as an outside audience and how they see
the dancers.
